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Ecological systems and the environment
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- Creator
- Theodore C. Foin, Jr
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Boston : Houghton Mifflin, [1976]
- ©1976
- Physical Details
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- xv, 591 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780395206669, 0395206669
- OCLC
- ocm02201899
- Includes bibliographies and index.
- Pt. 1. About systems and ecological systems: -- "Ecological systems" and "environmental studies" -- Ecological systems, combinations and recombinations -- Systems concepts for environmental analysis -- pt. 2. To cover the earth?: -- Populations marching onward to an uncertain future -- Shutting off the population valve, or who does what to whom? -- pt. 3. Matching present resources and future needs: -- Difficult choices, strategies for food production -- The dilemmas of water development -- pt. 4. Environmental quality, a measure of mankind: -- At the heart of the matter -- Sustained yield, or what? -- Conservation, substitution, or both? -- Ecology, water quality, and the cesspool mentality -- The sewer in the sky -- A question of mounting imbalance -- New problems of a powerful technology
- Pt. 5. Relicts and islands along the roads of progress: -- The retreat of natural systems -- Quiet corners and recreation for a diversity of needs -- pt. 6. People and their creations: -- Ecology and urban environments -- Environmental preception, it's what you think that counts -- Economic systems, government, and ecological systems, coaction and conflict -- Ecological systems and environmental strategies
Subjects
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental protection.
- Human ecology.
- Ecology.
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- Environment.
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- Environmental Pollution.
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